Modern Communications: A Systematic Introduction (English Edition)

Description

Designed for a single-semester course, this concise and approachable text covers all of the essential concepts needed to understand modern communications systems. Balancing theory with practical implementation, it presents key ideas as a chain of functions for a transmitter and receiver, covering topics such as amplification, up- and down-conversion, modulation, dispersive channel compensation, error-correcting codes, acquisition, multiple-antenna and multiple-input multiple-output antenna techniques, and higher level communications functions. Analog modulations are also presented, and all of the basic and advanced mathematics, statistics, and Fourier theory needed to understand the concepts covered is included. Supported online with PowerPoint slides, a solutions manual, and additional MATLAB-based simulation problems, it is ideal for a first course in communications for senior undergraduate and graduate students. Review: Excellent, concise, mathematically thorough text - This is an extremely well written, concise text on modern digital communications. For those of you who do not have time or patience to read a tome, this concise text will bring you up to speed quickly. It does assume you have a strong mathematical background in linear algebra and probability/statistics similar to an advanced undergraduate or early graduate student in engineering.